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Given that context is everything I thought it might be useful to show the national polling gap between the main two parties this year compared with what it was in 2014 when most of the seats up on Thursday will last fought.

I have simply had it down at Brandon's Tory troll farm ,undercover.Commenting "Fuck off,Steptoe",25 times a day gets to you in the end, especially when you realise you missed a 33-1 tip from TSE and could have been doing nothing.

1. It voted Leave* (unlike Richmond or Kingston)2. 2014 was an exceptional year for the LDs in Sutton, where they gained seats 3. UKIP stood and had an impact in the Borough4. The council makeup understates how close it is, with a lot of split wards, and some very marginal LDs over Cons5. The LDs are polling no better than 2014, while the Conservatives are well up6. There appear to be local factors which may weigh against the LDs

If anybody wants to back the LDs at 1-4 (better than Shadsy's 1-5), I'll take small bets.

* I think. Certainly Burstow's seat voted Leave, and that's most of the Borough

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

Weekly bin collections - our local authority (Conwy) is moving to once every four weeks shortly.

I have simply had it down at Brandon's Tory troll farm ,undercover.Commenting "Fuck off,Steptoe",25 times a day gets to you in the end, especially when you realise you missed a 33-1 tip from TSE and could have been doing nothing.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

Wow: I'm surprised its such a small number. That's 1% of the population for a place I would have expected to be much more full of Europeans than the country as a whole.

Edit to add: I'm being dim. I thought Barnes was a council like Richmond Upon Thames, when it's just a part of Richmond...

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

Wow: I'm surprised its such a small number. That's 1% of the population for a place I would have expected to be much more full of Europeans than the country as a whole.

It's about 10% of the electorate. I think you are looking at the constituency or the borough of Richmond. There are 18 wards in Richmond upon Thames. Barnes is just one of them. The winner on Thursday in Barnes will get about 1300-1500 votes depending on turnout. The 700 EU nationals are significant.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

Wow: I'm surprised its such a small number. That's 1% of the population for a place I would have expected to be much more full of Europeans than the country as a whole.

It's about 10% of the electorate. I think you are looking at the constituency or the borough of Richmond. There are 18 wards in Richmond upon Thames. Barnes is just one of them. The winner on Thursday in Barnes will get about 1300-1500 votes depending on turnout. The 700 EU nationals are significant.

The sort of people that are part of the cult here, thankfully our "tradition" of May Day riots have been something that hasn't happened for quite a few years now.

I'm almost feeling a bit sorry for the Paris rioters though. Stealing food from a Mackie's and gorging themselves on it? They'll suffer cruel and unusual punishment all right and it will take more then bicarbonate of soda to put it right!

The sort of people that are part of the cult here, thankfully our "tradition" of May Day riots have been something that hasn't happened for quite a few years now.

I'm almost feeling a bit sorry for the Paris rioters though. Stealing food from a Mackie's and gorging themselves on it? They'll suffer cruel and unusual punishment all right and it will take more then bicarbonate of soda to put it right!

Hitting McDonalds always seems a bit of a weird one to me....pretty much all the owners of those stores are small business people who own a franchise, not the massive multi-national McDonalds Corp.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

The sort of people that are part of the cult here, thankfully our "tradition" of May Day riots have been something that hasn't happened for quite a few years now.

I'm almost feeling a bit sorry for the Paris rioters though. Stealing food from a Mackie's and gorging themselves on it? They'll suffer cruel and unusual punishment all right and it will take more then bicarbonate of soda to put it right!

Hitting McDonalds always seems a bit of a weird one to me....pretty much all the owners of those stores are small business people who own a franchise, not the massive multi-national McDonalds Corp.

I just looked that up, and you're absolutely right: 82% of Macdonalds are franchises.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

Fortunately I still have my larger bin from before the local councils went unitary and unified their processes, although I imagine at some point the waste vans will change and not be able to take anything but the small bins now offered.

I heard there's a council up north where there are something like 7 different types of waste bin, but here' sit's just 3, thank goodness.

Does anyone else think that May Day ought to be our national day/bank holiday? And rather than it being about the Labour movement it could be re-branded as a tribute to the prime minister who delivered Brexit.

As for McDonalds, you wonder about modern protesters. People used to go on hunger strikes now they protest by eating burgers?

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

" People really do care about their dustbin collections."(?)

You don't own a house if you doubt this.

Weekly landfill waste collections really aren’t necessary anymore given all the options for recycling. Our council does landfill and recycling on alternate weeks and it’s absolutely fine.

The fact that no council took up Eric Pickle’s offer to pay to bring back weekly collections suggest most agree too.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

It shows how meaningless the governments pledge on plastics was and is.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

We have fortnightly bin collections, split between black bins for general waste one week, and green bins (food/vegetation waste) and blue bins (recycling) the next. We never used to fill up the black bin until we had a baby, and then it would be filled each week. And the smell in summer would be something else ...

It is a good reason to want to get potty training over and done with. And once you've mastered it, to teach your child as well ...

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

I also live in Trafford. The solution is to have a third child. The council give you an 80 litre grey bin.

Does anyone else think that May Day ought to be our national day/bank holiday? And rather than it being about the Labour movement it could be re-branded as a tribute to the prime minister who delivered Brexit.

I thought Union day would have been appropriate for the outcome of the Sindy Ref, a national celebration and a bank holiday in the latter part of the year too, when there are too many earlier. But I didn't want to tempt fate.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

Does anyone else think that May Day ought to be our national day/bank holiday? And rather than it being about the Labour movement it could be re-branded as a tribute to the prime minister who delivered Brexit.

As for McDonalds, you wonder about modern protesters. People used to go on hunger strikes now they protest by eating burgers?

No, by vandalising burger restaurants - unless you are seeing very different news reports from me.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

I also live in Trafford. The solution is to have a third child. The council give you an 80 litre grey bin.

1. It voted Leave* (unlike Richmond or Kingston)2. 2014 was an exceptional year for the LDs in Sutton, where they gained seats 3. UKIP stood and had an impact in the Borough4. The council makeup understates how close it is, with a lot of split wards, and some very marginal LDs over Cons5. The LDs are polling no better than 2014, while the Conservatives are well up6. There appear to be local factors which may weigh against the LDs

If anybody wants to back the LDs at 1-4 (better than Shadsy's 1-5), I'll take small bets.

* I think. Certainly Burstow's seat voted Leave, and that's most of the Borough

Lib Dems currently hold 43 of 53 Sutton Council seats, and have a Local MP in Tom Brake who held on in the Tsunamis of 2015 and 2017.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

I also live in Trafford. The solution is to have a third child. The council give you an 80 litre grey bin.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

I also live in Trafford. The solution is to have a third child. The council give you an 80 litre grey bin.

In Edinburgh the council have voted to bring in a £25 annual charge to pick up the garden waste bin every 2 weeks. We will have to register to pay for something they collect already. Those who don't register will have to dispose of their own garden waste. Guess what will go into most people's landfill bins - or get quietly added to the neighbour's garden waste bins. Cue lots of angry people. Muppets.

The sort of people that are part of the cult here, thankfully our "tradition" of May Day riots have been something that hasn't happened for quite a few years now.

I'm almost feeling a bit sorry for the Paris rioters though. Stealing food from a Mackie's and gorging themselves on it? They'll suffer cruel and unusual punishment all right and it will take more then bicarbonate of soda to put it right!

Hitting McDonalds always seems a bit of a weird one to me....pretty much all the owners of those stores are small business people who own a franchise, not the massive multi-national McDonalds Corp.

I just looked that up, and you're absolutely right: 82% of Macdonalds are franchises.

As an aside, the movie the Founder about the origins of McDonalds is actually quite good.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

I also live in Trafford. The solution is to have a third child. The council give you an 80 litre grey bin.

In Edinburgh the council have voted to bring in a £25 annual charge to pick up the garden waste bin every 2 weeks. We will have to register to pay for something they collect already. Those who don't register will have to dispose of their own garden waste. Guess what will go into most people's landfill bins. Muppets.

Did that round my way too. Apparently take up was better than expected. I didn't cut my grass for a year (I wouldn't advise people put it in the landfill bins - they will check, at least initially, and refuse to pick up your waste).

On internet dating - didn't Mr Thomas of this parish once write about his interesting experiences of it. He once recommended to me (in about 2008) that I give it a try, a time when it wasn't quite considered 'normal.'

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

I also live in Trafford. The solution is to have a third child. The council give you an 80 litre grey bin.

In Edinburgh the council have voted to bring in a £25 annual charge to pick up the garden waste bin every 2 weeks. We will have to register to pay for something they collect already. Those who don't register will have to dispose of their own garden waste. Guess what will go into most people's landfill bins - or get quietly added to the neighbour's garden waste bins. Cue lots of angry people. Muppets.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

On internet dating - didn't Mr Thomas of this parish once write about his interesting experiences of it. He once recommended to me (in about 2008) that I give it a try, a time when it wasn't quite considered 'normal.'

I’m afraid it’s not a joke. But it’s only true of my very specific bit, which is treated as a business district.

On internet dating - didn't Mr Thomas of this parish once write about his interesting experiences of it. He once recommended to me (in about 2008) that I give it a try, a time when it wasn't quite considered 'normal.'

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

I also live in Trafford. The solution is to have a third child. The council give you an 80 litre grey bin.

In Edinburgh the council have voted to bring in a £25 annual charge to pick up the garden waste bin every 2 weeks. We will have to register to pay for something they collect already. Those who don't register will have to dispose of their own garden waste. Guess what will go into most people's landfill bins. Muppets.

Did that round my way too. Apparently take up was better than expected. I didn't cut my grass for a year (I wouldn't advise people put it in the landfill bins - they will check, at least initially, and refuse to pick up your waste).

Our garden bins cost 15 quid when it was set up a few years ago. It was 27 quid for the past 2 years, but this year has gone up to 40 effing quid!. And the council wonder why flytipping is on the up.

Tories are going hard on dustbins. In many (all?) London contests, they are claiming Labour and LibDems are threatening weekly collections. That seems to be their main strategy. It might work, even though it is false. People really do care about their dustbin collections.

LibDems are going for the EU national vote in protest at Brexit. In Barnes, the result is likely to be + or - 200 votes. There are 700 EU nationals in Barnes - many of whom have never voted in a UK election. We are putting them all on our shuttleworth. It could make all the difference - but we need to inform them how to vote. Three crosses etc.

My (non-London) Tory council went 2 weekly for bins yonks ago, I kind of assumed most places already have it.

I live in Tory Trafford, and tbh would vote for anyone other than the BNP if they promised a return to weekly bin collections. It's so bizarrely stressful how near the household comes to filling the wheelie bin each time. And Amazon deliveries with all the packaging!

It shows how meaningless the governments pledge on plastics was and is.

How does it show that? Not that it's a central government issue anyway, but giving households enough capacity to take all their rubbish but only by a stressfully small margin, is precisely the best strategy to induce waste reduction. Amazon packaging is cardboard anyway.

On internet dating - didn't Mr Thomas of this parish once write about his interesting experiences of it. He once recommended to me (in about 2008) that I give it a try, a time when it wasn't quite considered 'normal.'

Re rubbish collections. If I hadn't left London for LA, I was going to start up an "app based" private rubbish collection service, where you sign up for £40/year, and then pay £3/bag. You schedule your collections, and we automatically route the truck. (We'd have bright Red bags that you purchased for your trash, which would result in a negative working capital model.)

I reckoned you could probably make about £300,000/year per truck, after landfill fees (but before salaries).

On internet dating - didn't Mr Thomas of this parish once write about his interesting experiences of it. He once recommended to me (in about 2008) that I give it a try, a time when it wasn't quite considered 'normal.'

I’m afraid it’s not a joke. But it’s only true of my very specific bit, which is treated as a business district.

I had the same when I lived just off Great Russell st (Camden council). I think it is a public health issue, isn't it?

Re rubbish collections. If I hadn't left London for LA, I was going to start up an "app based" private rubbish collection service, where you sign up for £40/year, and then pay £3/bag. You schedule your collections, and we automatically route the truck. (We'd have bright Red bags that you purchased for your trash, which would result in a negative working capital model.)

I reckoned you could probably make about £300,000/year per truck, after landfill fees (but before salaries).

Don’t they normally have a crew of 4-5? Given London salaries, that doesn’t seem like much for profit margin.

I had heard rubbish is collected every day in Venice, which sounds expensive.

I'm in a complex of flats by Haslemere - we have numerous rubbish bins in a separate small compund, and put bags in whenever we feel like it. I've no idea how often the council picks them up, but often enough that there's no problem. I've seen the same on many council estates. Seems a lot more sensible than all this hassle with doorstep collection. A bit trickier in areas with houses spaced far apart, of course.

On internet dating - didn't Mr Thomas of this parish once write about his interesting experiences of it. He once recommended to me (in about 2008) that I give it a try, a time when it wasn't quite considered 'normal.'

Re rubbish collections. If I hadn't left London for LA, I was going to start up an "app based" private rubbish collection service, where you sign up for £40/year, and then pay £3/bag. You schedule your collections, and we automatically route the truck. (We'd have bright Red bags that you purchased for your trash, which would result in a negative working capital model.)

I reckoned you could probably make about £300,000/year per truck, after landfill fees (but before salaries).

Why would anyone opt for private collection? Apart from garden rubbish* I am not aware that you can opt out of the council collection and save a proportion of your council tax.

(* £46 per year for fortnightly collections here, versus the £118 it would cost using your pricing model.)

The betting markets are now up for this summer's World Cup should it take place.Geo-politically,the hosts,Russia have an advantage,like the Eurovision Song Contest,and the refs will probably be ex-KGB agents,so I make Russia a tradeable asset at 16-1 to win and for them to win their group with maximum points.As far as basketball is concerned,my Lithuanian taxi-driver told me his team would overcome Spain to beat Putin's Russia for the championships.

I had heard rubbish is collected every day in Venice, which sounds expensive.

I'm in a complex of flats by Haslemere - we have numerous rubbish bins in a separate small compund, and put bags in whenever we feel like it. I've no idea how often the council picks them up, but often enough that there's no problem. I've seen the same on many council estates. Seems a lot more sensible than all this hassle with doorstep collection. A bit trickier in areas with houses spaced far apart, of course.

I was in portugal over the Christmas and the area I was staying had a very good solution. Houses put their various rubbish / recycling into what looked like small bins at an area on the corner of the street. Except they were false bins, as there was a large set of industrial bin buried underground. Then when the binmen came they removed the false floor and tipped the industrial bins into the back of the lorry.

Re rubbish collections. If I hadn't left London for LA, I was going to start up an "app based" private rubbish collection service, where you sign up for £40/year, and then pay £3/bag. You schedule your collections, and we automatically route the truck. (We'd have bright Red bags that you purchased for your trash, which would result in a negative working capital model.)

I reckoned you could probably make about £300,000/year per truck, after landfill fees (but before salaries).

Don’t they normally have a crew of 4-5? Given London salaries, that doesn’t seem like much for profit margin.

You'd need a crew of three - one driver and two collectors. The collectors would only have to work the route time itself, but the driver would also have to go on to the landfill site. I estimated that collectors would work six hours a day at an all-in cost of £15/hour, and the driver would work eight at £25. That's a pretty healthy profit margin.

Re rubbish collections. If I hadn't left London for LA, I was going to start up an "app based" private rubbish collection service, where you sign up for £40/year, and then pay £3/bag. You schedule your collections, and we automatically route the truck. (We'd have bright Red bags that you purchased for your trash, which would result in a negative working capital model.)

I reckoned you could probably make about £300,000/year per truck, after landfill fees (but before salaries).

Why would anyone opt for private collection? Apart from garden rubbish* I am not aware that you can opt out of the council collection and save a proportion of your council tax.

(* £46 per year for fortnightly collections here, versus the £118 it would cost using your pricing model.)

It's an additional service that people would use from time-to-time. If you'd had a kids birthday party and now had a tonne of trash to clear away, then paying £3 to someone to add your house to the route is a bargain.

On internet dating - didn't Mr Thomas of this parish once write about his interesting experiences of it. He once recommended to me (in about 2008) that I give it a try, a time when it wasn't quite considered 'normal.'

I’m afraid it’s not a joke. But it’s only true of my very specific bit, which is treated as a business district.

I had the same when I lived just off Great Russell st (Camden council). I think it is a public health issue, isn't it?

My London flat is on Charlotte Street and there are collections 2-3 times a day.

Re rubbish collections. If I hadn't left London for LA, I was going to start up an "app based" private rubbish collection service, where you sign up for £40/year, and then pay £3/bag. You schedule your collections, and we automatically route the truck. (We'd have bright Red bags that you purchased for your trash, which would result in a negative working capital model.)

I reckoned you could probably make about £300,000/year per truck, after landfill fees (but before salaries).

Don’t they normally have a crew of 4-5? Given London salaries, that doesn’t seem like much for profit margin.

You'd need a crew of three - one driver and two collectors. The collectors would only have to work the route time itself, but the driver would also have to go on to the landfill site. I estimated that collectors would work six hours a day at an all-in cost of £15/hour, and the driver would work eight at £25. That's a pretty healthy profit margin.

I am sure you have properly researched this but a quick google search shows for instance in Birmingham they use 5 man crews who make about £45k a year....And they have famously been striking for more cash.

Re rubbish collections. If I hadn't left London for LA, I was going to start up an "app based" private rubbish collection service, where you sign up for £40/year, and then pay £3/bag. You schedule your collections, and we automatically route the truck. (We'd have bright Red bags that you purchased for your trash, which would result in a negative working capital model.)

I reckoned you could probably make about £300,000/year per truck, after landfill fees (but before salaries).

Don’t they normally have a crew of 4-5? Given London salaries, that doesn’t seem like much for profit margin.

You'd need a crew of three - one driver and two collectors. The collectors would only have to work the route time itself, but the driver would also have to go on to the landfill site. I estimated that collectors would work six hours a day at an all-in cost of £15/hour, and the driver would work eight at £25. That's a pretty healthy profit margin.

I am sure you have properly researched this but a quick google search shows for instance in Birmingham they use 5 man crews who make about £45k a year....And they have famously been striking for more cash.

The model is very different though: they are collecting a high density of trash, from nearly every home. And they are - effectively - being paid only 15-20p/bag, against our £3.

Our truck is collecting much less trash, and so having more people on the truck wouldn't help you. They'd be sitting around if there was only one house in 20 with collections, and then had a single bag.

Re rubbish collections. If I hadn't left London for LA, I was going to start up an "app based" private rubbish collection service, where you sign up for £40/year, and then pay £3/bag. You schedule your collections, and we automatically route the truck. (We'd have bright Red bags that you purchased for your trash, which would result in a negative working capital model.)

I reckoned you could probably make about £300,000/year per truck, after landfill fees (but before salaries).

Why would anyone opt for private collection? Apart from garden rubbish* I am not aware that you can opt out of the council collection and save a proportion of your council tax.

(* £46 per year for fortnightly collections here, versus the £118 it would cost using your pricing model.)

It's an additional service that people would use from time-to-time. If you'd had a kids birthday party and now had a tonne of trash to clear away, then paying £3 to someone to add your house to the route is a bargain.

Ah I see. £3 per bag is a bargain, I agree. The £40/year and having to purchase the bags might be a disincentive but I'm the person who thought mobile phones would never catch-on so you can safely ignore my scepticism.

Re rubbish collections. If I hadn't left London for LA, I was going to start up an "app based" private rubbish collection service, where you sign up for £40/year, and then pay £3/bag. You schedule your collections, and we automatically route the truck. (We'd have bright Red bags that you purchased for your trash, which would result in a negative working capital model.)

I reckoned you could probably make about £300,000/year per truck, after landfill fees (but before salaries).

Why would anyone opt for private collection? Apart from garden rubbish* I am not aware that you can opt out of the council collection and save a proportion of your council tax.

(* £46 per year for fortnightly collections here, versus the £118 it would cost using your pricing model.)

For the same reason that anyone uses private provision of services that the state also offers; convenience, not wanting to wait, etc.

Bins aren't a big deal for us - but we're only two in a two bedroom house, without kids, and get most of our food delivered to the door by Abel and Cole, so it is largely not covered in wrapping, and in boxes that the company then takes away. People live different lives, and so have different needs.

On internet dating - didn't Mr Thomas of this parish once write about his interesting experiences of it. He once recommended to me (in about 2008) that I give it a try, a time when it wasn't quite considered 'normal.'

I’m afraid it’s not a joke. But it’s only true of my very specific bit, which is treated as a business district.

I had the same when I lived just off Great Russell st (Camden council). I think it is a public health issue, isn't it?

My London flat is on Charlotte Street and there are collections 2-3 times a day.

The 200-year-old book printers that produced the bestselling Harry Potter series has been sold for close to £24. Clays Ltd prints and binds 150 million books every year at its 19-acre production and distribution site in Bungay, Suffolk.

For just £24, can I please nominate for bargain of the century? Would be impressive to beat that in the next 82 years. It knocks the Louisiana Purchase into a cocked hat.

Urrrm, no, BBC. I am not an Israeli politician, and I am not a rights activist, and that is absolutely anti-Semitic. End of.

In a strange way though that is progress. He used to be a full-blown Irving/Faurisson/Eisen style Holocaust denier.

I expect Abbas to be a git. It's the BBC putting weasel clauses in that pi**es me off.

Give the Wisemann a moment and he'll tell us the Beeb are correct, because it's only anti-Zionism.

Yes, I know I am being flippant.

I remember Paul Johnson once cited an Egyptian newspaper article which managed to argue that the Holocaust never happened, but if it did happen, it was justified, but was probably carried out by Zionists in any case.

On internet dating - didn't Mr Thomas of this parish once write about his interesting experiences of it. He once recommended to me (in about 2008) that I give it a try, a time when it wasn't quite considered 'normal.'

I’m afraid it’s not a joke. But it’s only true of my very specific bit, which is treated as a business district.

I had the same when I lived just off Great Russell st (Camden council). I think it is a public health issue, isn't it?

My London flat is on Charlotte Street and there are collections 2-3 times a day.